The President of the United States is literally making the case for democracy over authoritarianism. In 2016.

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Chris may see that as an insult to Donald Trump. I'd see it as an insult to this convention and how pathetic the messaging is and how hollow any plan to move forward actually is.

Barack knows a thing or two about authoritarianism after all. He's got the kill list, he carries out The Drone War, he goes after journalists and whistle-blowers. On the last one, CODEPINK's Medea Benjamin ReTweeted:

Ed is whistle-blower Ed Snowden who exposed the NSA's illegal spying on Americans. Some may remember Shrill Hill Clinton snarling Ed should be in prison for his leaks of classified information. She doesn't say that much these days due to the fact that she's now been exposed -- liars always will be -- of sending at least 3 classified e-mails on her non-protected e-mail server and, of course, there was her fit when they couldn't fax her classified information so she told them to use a regular fax and just strip off the classified warnings. Shrill Hill, what a leader.

Chelsea is whistle-blower Chelsea Manning who served in Iraq and leaked to WikiLeaks and remains in prison for what he did with classified information. Shrill Hill, of course, didn't have to go to prison -- but when your husband can meet with the Attorney General on a plane -- with the FBI telling the press "no photos" -- you don't have to go to prison.

Rules are for regular people, not Shrill Hill.

And Julian Assange is the head of WikiLeaks who brought down Debbie Wasserman Schultz with his e-mail leak. (Wasserman Schultz had been the Chair of the DNC until the e-mails showed that the DNC conspired to bury Bernie Sanders in the primaries while elevating Debbie's gal pal Hillary.)

But this is the man who held a hearing, a VA hearing, chaired it in fact, the week that the VA's fake lists on time waits were exposed and while the press was reporting on the denial of care and how it may have led to deaths. And how did Bernie start that hearing? Insisting that the topic not be mentioned in his hearing because he wanted to talk about . . . acupuncture.

Bernie the eternal failure.

Only running against Shrill Hill could Bernie ever look like a savior.

WSWS continues their coverage from Philadelphia:Our reporting team spoke to Kate and Meira, who had driven to Philadelphia from New York to support Sanders and protest the nomination of Hillary Clinton. Kate told us, “Hillary is such a warmonger and it really scares me. The two candidates are loathed by so many people.” Speaking further about Clinton, she said, “I think she’s a puppet, and they’ll get a new puppet. There are a lot of agents and actors, it’s a machine.”When asked about the leaked emails exposing the DNC, Meira said, “We were saying it all along, and it is outrageous, scandalous and awful. Their apology doesn’t mean anything because they are apologizing and not doing anything. If they meant it they would say, ‘Wow, this was awful, let’s vote again.’ They’re not saying that. They’re saying, pardon my language, ‘We screwed you over, sorry! We’re going to take the results we dictated and run with them.’ We knew that our votes were stolen. We know what happened, and it’s kind of insane.”Wynn and Heather drove all the way from Iowa. Wynn said that “WikiLeaks basically validates everything we’ve been thinking since the beginning. The things that have been going on are unfair, unjust,” at which point Heather added, “corrupt!”